Life's Too Short

I have recently read a book called ' Life's Too Short'. The book was written by seven different people.  The foreword was written by Val McDermid in March 2010. This book was seven short true stories about the writers life at work.

The book had text that was easy to read and understand. I was gripped to the stories all the way through, i couldn't put the book down.

The book was all about seven young people who each had a different view to work.  The true life stories were great but the one that i enjoyed the most was ' Don't Put Barney In The Bag'.  This true life story was written by Anthony Connolly. Anthony was the driver of a bin lorry. It was a cold winter morning and when Anthony arrived at the depot he couldn't help but notice that his bin lorry was still frozen solid. Anthony jumped into the cab of the lorry and started the engine after having to defrost, unlock and force open the frozen driver's door. Anthony turned on the lorries heaters to full blast, jumped out the cab and heated for his morning tea and toast in the depot canteen. Anthony was working with Andy that week ans Andy was always pleased to do anything which he shouldn't for example biting through the fairy lights at the christmas party. Andy surpassed himself with the stupidity on this occasion though. When Andy and Anthony turned up at there first refuse collection of the day they were only supposed to collect three bags of garden waste.  Andy decided to knock the door and ask if there was anything else which they could take away for the owner.  The owner asked Andy to take away her dead dog. Andy and Anthony decided to take the dead dog away in a black bag. While they were moving the dog through the ladies house the bag split and the dead dog dropped out onto the ladies livingroom carpet, right in front of the ladies children. Andy and Anthony lifted the dog and ran out the ladies house, jumped into the lorry and drove off forgetting all about the three bags of garden waste they had to collect in the first place.  Did the owner of the house phone the council depot and complain about Andy and Anthony or did they get away with the sheer stupidity of Andy again? read the book. I have to say it really is worth reading.